Meditation (Schweagon Temple complex - Yangon Myanmar

[thetraveler]

[Shadowman]

Nice framing.

[ionian]

Interesting Lew - all that gold gives it such a strange light, but it's nice. There's a couple if distractions on the floor / column on the left that I'd clone out.

I wonder if it would benefit from a crop to take out the part column on the left, and a crop at the bottom in line with the lions feet?

[Sergio M.]

I like the contrast between the ornate architecture and the simplicity of the monk. Well seen and captured.

Sergio

[thetraveler]

Sergio and Shadowman, thanks for looking and saying something.

Interesting Lew - all that gold gives it such a strange light, but it's nice. There's a couple if distractions on the floor / column on the left that I'd clone out.

I wonder if it would benefit from a crop to take out the part column on the left, and a crop at the bottom in line with the lions feet?

Simon, feel free to try the crop.
Although I am usually a fan of tight crops to fill the frame as much as possible. my thought when finishing this is that his isolation and looking away into an dark space was part of the interest and so I wanted to get a bit of space around the monk.

If you want a travel destination with photo ops galore, Myanmar is surely it.
I was last there in 2013 and the tourist rush was intense, just overwhelming the resources.
I had been in 2010 and tourists were rare and you could get into town on a bus and find a low cost room, no problem.
Those days are gone, unfortunately.

[ionian]

I have to say, I don't think it makes much difference but here is the crop: